Platform Leadership

Gawer, A., & Cusumano, M. A. (2002). Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation. Harvard Business School Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2002

Link

https://archive.org/details/platformleadersh0000gawematched

Cited from

computer_science, economics_finance, engineering_design, mathematics, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

8 citations across 8 artifacts.

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Primes

• Decomposition
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• Design for Lifecycle Adaptability

  • This source(Bibliography-only — uncited in body; topically a platform-strategy reference, likely contamination from a platform prime's reference list.)

• Interface
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• Modularity
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• Platform Design
  • The mechanism works because it inverts scalability: instead of central teams building individual products for each market, a platform team builds the foundation and the ecosystem builds the applications, making system complexity scale with ecosystem participation rather than central capacity
• Specialization
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• Substitutability
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Mechanisms

• Platform Ecosystem Change Council
  • Its strength is that it makes contested, ecosystem-wide change legitimate — which is the only thing that makes such change stick — and it is the natural guardian of the fairness that keeps complementors building even when the operator is also their competitor

    This sourceShows platform leaders managing complementors while balancing collaboration, competition, and internal and external conflicts of interest.

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